Self
Having its own or a single nature or character, as in color, composition, etc., without addition or change; unmixed; as, a self bow, one made from a single piece of wood; self flower or plant, one which is wholly of one color; self-colored.
Same; particular; very; identical.
The individual as the object of his own reflective consciousness; the man viewed by his own cognition as the subject of all his mental phenomena, the agent in his own activities, the subject of his own feelings, and the possessor of capacities and character; a person as a distinct individual; a being regarded as having personality.
Hence, personal interest, or love of private interest; selfishness; as, self is his whole aim.
Personification; embodiment.
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Self Quotations
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment.
William Shakespeare
This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
Benjamin Franklin
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Khalil Gibran
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Khalil Gibran
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.
Sun Tzu
Self Translations
self in Afrikaans is self
self in Dutch is vanzelf, zelf
self in Finnish is itse
self in German is selber, selbst, selbst
self in Latin is ego
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